Fans make beeline for ‘Bloodlines’

Death is not looming for the Final Destination franchise at the box office Its sixth installment Final Destination Bloodlines drew big crowds to movie theaters this weekend and easily topped the domestic charts with million in ticket sales according to studio estimates Sunday The movie earned the same internationally adding up to a million global debut The same enthusiasm did not meet Abel The Weeknd Tesfaye s experimental thriller Hurry Up On the morrow which opened outside of the top five with an estimated million It was perpetually going to have a tough time coming up against Final Destination Bloodlines ' mentioned Paul Dergarabedian the senior media analyst for Comscore There was a lot of buzz Final Destination Bloodlines opened in locations riding in on a wave of strong reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and viral marketing tactics including a picture of logs on the back of trucks a callback to one of the more infamous Final Destination death traps Final Destination s win effectively revives a -year-old franchise that hasn t had a new film since It also continues a hot streak for Warner Bros which has had near back-to-back hits in Ryan Coogler s Sinners and A Minecraft Movie All three were in the top five this weekend Disney s Thunderbolts landed in second with million pushing its global total to over million Sinners placed third with million bringing its global total to million A Minecraft Movie which has made million globally added million Amazon MGM Studios The Accountant rounded out the top five Hurry Up The coming day opened in sixth place The film which Tesfaye co-wrote and Trey Edward Shults directed is a kind of companion piece to his album and tour He plays a fictionalized version of himself as an insomniac musician Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan also star Neither critics nor audiences greeted it kindly It carries a on Rotten Tomatoes and was slapped with a C- CinemaScore Music writer Maria Sherman wrote that it s an exciting vanity project with surrealist imagination but stiff writing no stakes limited emotional weight and an unclear narrative Lionsgate only handled the release of the R-rated film which opened on over screens and its million was enough to make it a profitable deal for the studio Next weekend could be a big one for movie theaters as Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning and the live-action Lilo Stitch both open nationwide The overall domestic box office remains up nearly from last year This weekend is the perfect opening act for what could be one of the biggest Memorial weekends at the box office ever Dergarabedian declared